Roadmap

How Do We Define our Roadmap?

The requirements of our users are the driving force behind all our development efforts.

Cloud Computing is a highly competitive market that presents challenges for the continued success of OpenNebula. Our goal is to deliver a product that is compelling to users. This requires us to be agile and flexible in order to quickly adapt to users’ needs and to market challenges. Hence, the roadmap needs to be flexible enough to deal with and take advantage of rapid changes in cloud and data center developments. This is the reason why we only publish our short-term roadmap, which is the description of the features planned for the next release of the software.

How Do We Prioritize Features in our Short-term Roadmap?

When we create the short-term roadmap and plan the features for the next release, we prioritize:

At the beginning of each release cycle we organize an IRC meeting or start a forum thread to discuss the requests for new features and for extending existing features. This valuable input to the planning meeting is used to create the short-term roadmap with the features that will be part of the release cycle. The final roadmap is described in a blog post after the planning meeting.

We will be also happy to discuss any ideas for next releases in the forum.